{"id":19237,"date":"2013-10-16T18:31:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T18:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19237"},"modified":"2013-10-16T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T18:32:07","slug":"same-old-song-and-dance-my-freind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19237","title":{"rendered":"Same Old Song And Dance, My Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What \"conservatives\" thought about <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2009\/07\/29\/170887\/medicare-44\/\">Medicare<\/a> when it was passed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ronald Reagan: \u201c[I]f you don\u2019t [stop Medicare] and I don\u2019t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children\u2019s children what it once was like in America when men were free.\u201d [1961]<\/p>\n<p>George H.W. Bush: Described Medicare in 1964 as \u201csocialized medicine.\u201d [1964]<\/p>\n<p>Barry Goldwater: \u201cHaving given our pensioners their medical care in kind, why not food baskets, why not public housing accommodations, why not vacation resorts, why not a ration of cigarettes for those who smoke and of beer for those who drink.\u201d [1964]<\/p>\n<p>Bob Dole: In 1996, while running for the Presidency, Dole openly bragged that he was one of 12 House members who voted against creating Medicare in 1965. \u201cI was there, fighting the fight, voting against Medicare . . . because we knew it wouldn\u2019t work in 1965.\u201d [1965] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/aug\/14\/opinion\/oe-altman14\">What they thought about Social Security<\/a> when it was passed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Republican congressman from New York, for example, charged: \"The lash of the dictator will be felt, and 25 million free American citizens will for the first time submit themselves to a fingerprint test.\"<\/p>\n<p>Another New York congressman put it this way: \"The bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants.\" A Republican senator from Delaware claimed that Social Security would \"end the progress of a great country and bring its people to the level of the average European.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any of that sound familiar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What \"conservatives\" thought about Medicare when it was passed: Ronald Reagan: \u201c[I]f you don\u2019t [stop Medicare] and I don\u2019t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children\u2019s children what it once was like in America when men were free.\u201d [1961] George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19240,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions\/19240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}